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Thursday, July 10, 2008

Regarding Bar Game Machines

Dear Megatouch,

Here is a list of questions that ARE and ARE NOT okay to include in your bar trivia games.

ACCEPTABLE:
1.) What is the capital of Venezuela?
2.) Who was the first man in outer space?
3.) What was George Eliot's real name?


LESS ACCEPTABLE, BUT I'LL DEAL WITH IT:
1.) How long can a walrus survive without water?
2.) Who won the last American Idol? (Your machines are old and not dated and I wouldn't know anyway.)


COMPLETELY UNACCEPTABLE:
1.) In Norway, which of these did a police dog find in a field? (I believe the options were drugs, a plane crash, a serial killer, and a dead body).
2.) Match the ballet icons' first names to their last names (displayed: five identically Russian names with thirty consonants each).

Don't I already give you enough money, Megatouch? Doesn't my refusal to admit defeat in a game of wits line your pockets with enough of my money? Can't you just pitch me enough reasonable questions in a row for me to finally get on top of the leader board, once and for all ousting 1.)TEAM DOUFG and 2.)A GAY? Every time I'm forced to give up because I open my wallet and a lonely moth flies out, I've lost another battle to these two tasteless trivia thugs, usually because I was on pace to win and then you asked me the name of the costar on the 1951 season of the Jack Benny Program. I don't know, Megatouch. I don't fucking know.

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